Thank you so much. Until last week I'd never used an overlocker as had been to frightened. Now I'm waiting on a friend who's going to gift me a 3 thread and the way you've gone into so much detail is amazing. I'm very much a beginner sewer but can't wait to improve hopefully even at age 58 there's no age limit on learning new things 😄
Hi, great video! Thank you!! So, if not stitching in the round, and you're stitching seams, are they secure at the ends already? I get so confused by this. I love my coverstitch and would use it for everything, I'm just not sure if the stitches are gonna stay or do I have to do something specific? I can chain off, but can I then cut my chain close to the fabric so it isn't hanging there? Thanks!!
I really enjoyed your video very much. I to make my own bread proofing baskets. My latest bowl is more oblong at the bottom. "4 wide x 14 long" at the base. I then raise the sides around 5". This makes the bread nice for sandwich slicing. I line the baskets with a clean flour sack dish towel or cheese cloth. Dust with rice flour and ready to go. These cloths are easy to rewash. No shrinkage. 😅
You have to tie a knot in the thread or your chain will come unraveled. And what is sewing "in the round"? I've been sewing for a long time and have never heard that in my life. I'm honestly sorry that I wasted 2 min watching this. You think you're helping people but you're not.
Gosh, I wish I had known about smoothing that plastic case off that holds the bobbin. I got my little fingernail diamond file and smoothed it off and No More Breaks or Shredding of the thread (and it always said rethread the upper thread .....and it was the bobbin case. UGH!. I have been losing my mind over the shredding. This surely worked. Saved me dollars seeing this and not having to send my machine in.
"The right needle for the right job"; no truer words have been said. I have a Janome 4 needle embroidery machine and started having a "thread shredding and breaking issue". I tried everything, spent hours messing with the bobbin area and looking for nicks, cleaning, oiling. I finally figured it out and solved my problem. Wrong needle. I was embroidering on hats and when I switched from 75/11 needle to 80/12 needle, my problem was solved! Right needle for right job can solve thread shredding and breaking issues. Hope this helps someone else....
My first attempt did not work. When I tried to gently pull the fabric towards myself to do the two stitches, the threads were too tight and would not move. It stayed stuck even though I had the needles up and the foot up. I tried pulling a little bit of thread through and sewed a few stitches anyway. I wound up with a pile of thread, stuck in the looper area, and it just pulled my fabric terribly, and now I have to pull out the entire thing and start the hem over again. I will stick to my more laborious but reliable, method. I am wondering if this option is specific to certain machines or if there is some setting I don’t know about that needs to be employed before this can actually work.
Quick question for you. I have a lot of existing clothes that I want to hem (sleeves & pants) with a cover stitch and they are all different colors. I don't want to invest in so many different cones of the same color thread, especially on such small simple projects. Is there any way that I can use something like a bobbin to create a small second spool of thread to be used on the 2nd needle? I don't care about the wrong side of the fabric, since the thread color doesn't show. It's only on the right side of the fabric with the 2 needles. Thanks!
I’m glad I actually watched the video. For a second I thought it was 2 non-English speaking women using random English words. Didn’t know “darn” was an actual word.
Next time, please stand up and speak behind the tables. Your seat is blocking the comparison of both tables. I wanted to see how much bigger the table is on the left. Thank you!
Really wish they'd quit trying to finish each other's sentences. They didn't even complete the thought they started regarding the trap door in the extension table at 40:06. What is this cool feature? And you can't see what they're talking about, given the all audio format. I think it must be a door to access the bobbin, but this constant interrupting and finishing each other's thoughts made it hard to decipher.
You solved it! I was sewing through very thin stretchy fabric plus a sticky/rubbery flat elastic, which was causing skipped stitches and thread shredding. Changed to a stretch needle instead of a universal, and all the problems vanished! Thanks!
In stopping then moving the fabric toward you then doing two stitches, essentially you are sewing two stitches on top of the last two stitches, the same thing as backstitching would do. Then when you pull the top threads with the pin and move the fabric sideways, then you clip that and pull those threads to the back when you pull on the bottom loop of threads. You could just clip them like she shows, or maybe I would just tie those two threads in a little knot before cutting them.
Thank you for this video! I got my grandma's old sewing machine and I had this problem since I got it about a year ago. I stuck with the machine because it had the stretch stitches I wanted but this kept messing up my stitches. Opened it up and the was a little bump on the bobbincase, now it finally runs smoothly 🤩
I need help can you please contact me please. I need help my string keeps coming out of the thread guide and only the top string is sewing on the fabric
